Word: ralph
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trival and commonplace. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Ralph J. Keller Nesconset...
...worn, meaningless grooves and follow instincts and impulses represent the minimalist thesis that most lives reduce to a few short intense moments. Gripping the production of David Mamet's Reunion tightly as a pack of howling canines chasing an axe murderer, director Sam Samuels and actors Alice Brown and Ralph Zito prove, with their restraint, the minimalist theory...
Nolo was founded in 1971 in a brown shingled house in Berkeley. Two Berkeley Law School graduates, Ralph Warner and Charles Sherman, emotionally and financially drained after three years as poverty lawyers, teamed up on a manual designed to take advantage of California's simplified divorce procedures. The result was How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, which has since sold 300,000 copies and may have saved its readers as much as $80 million in legal fees. Another big seller is California Tenants' Handbook (85,000 copies), which drew this letter from a disgruntled landlord...
...exits. Some managed to make their way to the stair wells, only to discover thick smoke or, worse, that once they had started down they found the doors locked on the stair well side as a security precaution. Others were caught in the hallways. Said Fire Department Captain Ralph Dinsman: "If they'd stayed in their rooms until we got to them, a lot of the dead would have survived...